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mutter: should not a people seek unto their

God? for the living to the dead? To the law

and to the testimony: if they speak not

according to this word, it is because there is

no light in them.” Isaiah 8:19, 20. If men had

been willing to receive the truth so plainly

stated in the Scriptures concerning the

nature of man and the state of the dead, they

would see in the claims and manifestations of

spiritualism the working of Satan with power

and signs and lying wonders. But rather than

yield the liberty so agreeable to the carnal

heart, and renounce the sins which they love,

multitudes close their eyes to the light and

walk straight on, regardless of warnings,

while Satan weaves his snares about them,

and they become his prey. “Because they

received not the love of the truth, that they

might be saved,” therefore “God shall send